The Cask of Amontillado
The Rocking Horse Winner
There Will Come Soft Rains
The Most Dangerous Game
The Possibility of Evil
A Modest Proposal
The Sniper
The Hockey Sweater
The Moose and the Sparrow

More short stories:

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Caleveras County by Mark Twain http://etext.virginia.edu/railton/projects/price/frog.htm

The Lottery by Shirley Jackson http://teachers.sduhsd.net/jconn/The%20Lottery.pdf

The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Alan Poe http://www.literature.org/authors/poe-edgar-allan/tell-tale-heart.html

To Build a Fire by Jack London http://www.jacklondons.net/buildafire.html
http://andersenfairytales.com/en/stories

Fables, Fairy Tales, children's stories and nursery rhymes:
http://www.ivyjoy.com/fables/

The Snow Queen (animation; no text): Hans Christian Andersen
Part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCFAUmIn-S0
Part 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xrl9j2-LyE0
Part 3:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KG6JGCHIaH0

The Snow Queen movie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZwSIXHn8a8
Fairytales: A folktale containing imaginary creatures and royalty.
Grimms Fairy Tales:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~spok/grimmtmp/

Grimms 12 most famous fairy tales with audio:
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/grimm/index2.html

Hans Christian Anderson's Fairy Tales (animated):

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